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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Sky Demon - Stealth Bomber with a paint job

Sky Demon

Alas - I did not scroll all the way to the bottom of the plane list last night to find this little sucker nestled down there. A new plane is now available once you reach level 50, the Sky Demon has arrived! Modeled after the beautiful lines of the B-2 Stealth Bomber.

Specs:
Damage: 13%: 4th in class, in the middle of the pack. Tops is Sentinel at 17%
Agility: 14% Tied for First in Class with Cyclops
Speed: A whopping18% makes this First in Class by far (but still slower than agility class planes)
Evasion: 12% is 2nd in class behind Cyclops.

Similar to the Sparrow, the Sky Demon is a weapons class plane taking on agility class boosts in agility, speed and evasion. The agility is nice, the damage is ok, the speed is good and the evasion is good. I'm still not real sure what kind of fight you would wage with these "hybrids". Weapons class planes are typically best a slugging it out at long range. Agility class planes are typically best in close engagements. I guess that this gives you a little of both, but not the best of either. Curious what you all think on this topic!

You can't compare a Weapons class aircraft with a Defense one. Achilles' (and defense planes generally) armor and energy makes up for its lack of Agility while Sky Demon's 3 Agility class stats makes up for its lower armor and resistence (lower than Achilles).

Berore I had this opinion too, but then I saw Yebisu's video on Youtube about it and I saw that 10% missile reload gives you only a quite little edge. In mid range engadgements you can't fire nor one more missile...

Main thing I don't like about SGAS is that it crashes often, and the controls are bulky. And we were just contemplating on what the ideal plane would be for each of us. This should help In makIng future decisions on plane purchases. There's nothing pitiful about thinking and contemplating. I could switch to SGAS any day, but I choose to stay with Z2 a little longer, before they destroy the game with astronomical stats...

This is one heck of a good hybrid IMO.It's the first in its class to have both agility and speed bonus and that becomes lethal if used correctly.As the stats tell, this plane is great for dogfighting and it isn't the best for those who snipe or do 24/7 backflip with coin missiles. It feels like flying an agility plane because of how easy it is to dodge coin missiles with this plane.I do miss the missile reload and crit strike from my RW sometimes, but the speed +evasion +agility makes up for it.Love the design too.I'm lovin' it (bada pappa pa~)

It will have the more armour regeneration than the F-105 Dragon. It will be an extremely unfair plane, due to it's manoeuvrability and armour regeneration. It was unintelligent of you to make such a plane. That is not a hybrid, but it is the game destroyer. If it was ever going to be made, it should be banned from versus, only for survival and campaign.

Dude chill. Someone even wrote a plane should have +999999% whatever stats and just because someone said it doesn't mean it's going to happen.U just saw it as a possibility, and it's not my problem for you to hate the game if they do make it.And I did quote "unfair" in the first place, thanks.

I have both and love them both equally.You can dodge coin missiles more easily and get more clearer shot opportunities with Sky Demon thanks to agility+speed+evasion bonus, but RW will still have higher damaging ability thanks to its damage+missile reload+crit strike bonus.In the right hands, they're both really lethal IMO.

Why everyone keeps comparing this aircraft with RW? Warlock is almost its upgrade! @ pd: 1% damage isn't a big difference, way better to have 4% more agility, 12% more evasion and 18% more speed instead of 5% more chance of critical strike and missile reload (with SD you can finish long range engadgement in very little time with its speed). If you can fly Agility planes you can dodge anything they throw at you with this plane and destroy your opponent in close engadgement (if he doesn't fly an Agility class aircraft).

Lol Red Widow's missile reload is nowhere near a second faster than other Weapons class planes. 10% Missile Reload is pretty close to nothing; a pair of extra shots in an extended long range approach at best, with both you and your opponent hitting the brakes.

All weapons class planes get a big missile reload upgrade from the tech tree that makes the 10% extra insignificant. The numbers lie.

Extra stats on planes would make a difference only on the long run.For example, I've been a long time Hawken pilot and found that in the long run, I had better kill rate with RW thanks to the 5% extra critical rate. Today, I switched to SD and I can now add various flying style thanks to the speed. However, I'm getting less kill rate because it doesn't crit as much as RW. That's just my observation, but the greatest difference would depend on which plane class you use and the flying skill you have.I mean if you back flip 24/7, the 10% reload might be useless and would want a plane with speed and lock speed like Liberty.If you dogfight well, agility, evasion, speed, damage would be much more appreciated.

Warlock isn't ugly. You just don't like its design, so say things as they really are. By the way to answer the question: Forget the Red Widow, when there is the Warlock which is better and costs less. Anyway Sky Demon is even better than Warlock so go for it or just wait for Z2Live to make a plane which performs better as they always do...

If you want to do the 3oclock and 9 o'clock trick then use RW so you can see your opponent so you can see it and do the non lock shot. It's gonna be very difficult with Sky Demon because it's big and blocks the view to see ur opponent. Also when you fly Sky Demon you are an easy non lock shot target bicause you're so big.

Is it just me or is 10% extra missile reload BARELY any extra missiles in most situations? I seem to generally fire the same amount on my RW as my other Weapons class planes. Maybe ever so slightly faster between shots but never really enough to shoot extra missiles.

I think SD is hands down better than all other current Weapons class planes. It may not have extra range or faster reload but it does have the speed to pretty much nullify that advantage if your opponent has those bonuses. It's a lot more manoeuverable than the regular weapons class plane too. Defense class planes in particular are no match for this plane.

Faced the Sky Demon a few times now, really good plane, but it didn't seem so agile, and neither could it hit me enough times or cause enough damage to my Red Widow. Won around 3-1 on most matches with RAAM missiles on my RW.

Probably wasn't a very good pilot or you're very skilled with the RW. I've faced the Sky Demon three times now each with their SR over 40k and mine is only 15k and each time we drew 0-0. I was in my reaper and found that the demon maneuvered very well and was very difficult to hit. I fly with standard weapons though so usually it leaves no room for error when your flying against lancers. Too bad I'm only at level 46 otherwise I would buy the beast and could see how it handles for myself. Until then, I can only judge how well I match up against it.

Skills always comes on top... But then again those who has lag in their favor could come on top ;p. I mean when I just got into this game, I thought those twirling players were hackers. But now I know they were just back-flipping 24/7 and now I could beat them fine, but still it pisses me off >(.

I had 20 off plane agility weapon and defense all full upgrade I spend a Lott off money and let me explain bit off my exp with all the plane agility spectra is the best second is reaper third is achilihator or what ever the name is for weapon plane sky demon is a monster but I kill more with my liberty or red widow defense class i waste my money for SR71 black bird but I just like it for champain mode is super good or survival dragon is the best I go all the way to level 25 wich my wingman been destroy since level 18

It's a very unique plane.I think it's first in its class to combine the best agility class characteristics (agility, speed, evasion).At least I haven't seen any other weapons class with agility + speed which changed my flying style a bit.